A lot of this is pretty specific to web development, I know it exists elsewhere too but I think it's most pronounced on the web and in the javascript community.

A lot of this is pretty specific to web development, I know it exists elsewhere too but I think it's most pronounced on the web and in the javascript community. To the point where javascript has inserted itself into more or less every domain and people look at you confused, asking why you'd bother writing your software in anything else.